Is your root partition an ext4 fs?
This sounds very similar to bug 595489.
(My guess is that once the flush task hangs, write accesses to the file
system will eventually become ... very unhappy, but I'm no expert. I've
only experienced this on a non-root FS.)
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creating a LUKS snapshot hangs
Are you sure this is fixed for Lucid?
I'm running the kernel: 2.6.32-24.40~pre201008060902
from https://launchpad.net/~kernel-ppa/+archive/pre-proposed
(as discussed in bug 605551). Looking at its changelog, it appears to contain
the fix for this.
I'm still seeing the hang when creating an
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: binutils
Ubuntu release info:
Description:Ubuntu 8.04.2
Release:8.04
Related packages:
binutils:
Installed: 2.18.1~cvs20080103-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 2.18.1~cvs20080103-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 2.18.1~cvs20080103-0ubuntu1 0
** Attachment added: patch to update binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-0ubuntu1 with
the latest demangler as of GCC source rev 149756
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30495907/demangler.patch
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binutils demangler cannot demangle all symbols emitted by gcc
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415744
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